Foreign Parts
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:23rd Feb '95
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Life on the road observed with a biting sensibility for the awkward and the joyous:a tale as comic as it is poignant.
Cassie and Rona.
Two women on a driving holiday in Northern France.
A caustic, coruscating and deeply funny account of morality, dysfunctional relationships and women abroad, Foreign Parts is that rare hybrid: a strikingly original novel about real life, told with accuracy, compassion and a truly saturnine delight.
Cassie and Rona. Rona and Cassie.
Two women on a driving holiday in Northern France.
A caustic, coruscating and deeply funny account of morality, dysfunctional relationships and women abroad, Foreign Parts is that rare hybrid: a strikingly original novel about real life, told with accuracy, compassion and a truly saturnine delight.
The book reassures that no matter how many times you've done something or been somewhere, the humiliations remain as burning, the pleasure as sharp as ever * Independent *
A funny, original, stinging-as-a-nettle, soothing-as-a-dockleaf read * Observer *
A carefully observed, caustic portrait of two opposites - one prickly, one plodding - and their troublesome but enduring friendship * New York Times *
A pleasure from start to finish * Guardian *
Every detail...is described with the accuracy of an X-ray and the urgency of poetry -- Penelope Mortimer * Daily Telegraph *
- Winner of McVities Prize for Scottish Writer of the Year 1994
ISBN: 9780099453017
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 17mm
Weight: 192g
272 pages